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	L8a6 is $8_{6}^{2}$ in the Rolfsen table of links.

Link Presentations

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Planar diagram presentation	X6172 X12,3,13,4 X16,8,5,7 X14,10,15,9 X10,14,11,13 X8,16,9,15 X2536 X4,11,1,12
Gauss code	{1, -7, 2, -8}, {7, -1, 3, -6, 4, -5, 8, -2, 5, -4, 6, -3}

A Braid Representative
A Morse Link Presentation

Polynomial invariants

Multivariable Alexander Polynomial (in $u$, $v$, $w$, ...)	${\frac {2uv-3u-3v+2}{{\sqrt {u}}{\sqrt {v}}}}$ (db)
Jones polynomial	$-{\frac {1}{q^{9/2}}}-q^{7/2}+{\frac {1}{q^{7/2}}}+2q^{5/2}-{\frac {3}{q^{5/2}}}-2q^{3/2}+{\frac {3}{q^{3/2}}}+3{\sqrt {q}}-{\frac {4}{\sqrt {q}}}$ (db)
Signature	-1 (db)
HOMFLY-PT polynomial	$a^{5}z^{-1}-2a^{3}z-a^{3}z^{-1}-za^{-3}+az^{3}+z^{3}a^{-1}+za^{-1}$ (db)
Kauffman polynomial	$-az^{7}-z^{7}a^{-1}-a^{2}z^{6}-2z^{6}a^{-2}-3z^{6}-a^{3}z^{5}+2az^{5}+2z^{5}a^{-1}-z^{5}a^{-3}-a^{4}z^{4}+7z^{4}a^{-2}+8z^{4}-a^{5}z^{3}-a^{3}z^{3}-3az^{3}+3z^{3}a^{-3}-5z^{2}a^{-2}-5z^{2}+2a^{5}z+2a^{3}z+az-za^{-3}+a^{4}-a^{5}z^{-1}-a^{3}z^{-1}$ (db)

Khovanov Homology

The coefficients of the monomials $t^{r}q^{j}$ are shown, along with their alternating sums $\chi$ (fixed $j$, alternation over $r$).

\   r    \    j   \ -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 χ 8                 1 1 6               1   -1 4             1 1   0 2           2 1     -1 0         2 1       1 -2       2 3         1 -4     1 1           0 -6     2             2 -8 1 1               0 -10 1                 1

Integral Khovanov Homology (db, data source)

$\dim {\mathcal {G}}_{2r+i}\operatorname {KH} _{\mathbb {Z} }^{r}$ $i=-2$ $i=0$ $r=-4$ ${\mathbb {Z} }$ ${\mathbb {Z} }$ $r=-3$ ${\mathbb {Z} }$ $r=-2$ ${\mathbb {Z} }^{2}\oplus {\mathbb {Z} }_{2}$ ${\mathbb {Z} }$ $r=-1$ ${\mathbb {Z} }\oplus {\mathbb {Z} }_{2}^{2}$ ${\mathbb {Z} }^{2}$ $r=0$ ${\mathbb {Z} }^{3}\oplus {\mathbb {Z} }_{2}$ ${\mathbb {Z} }^{2}$ $r=1$ ${\mathbb {Z} }\oplus {\mathbb {Z} }_{2}^{2}$ ${\mathbb {Z} }^{2}$ $r=2$ ${\mathbb {Z} }\oplus {\mathbb {Z} }_{2}$ ${\mathbb {Z} }$ $r=3$ ${\mathbb {Z} }\oplus {\mathbb {Z} }_{2}$ ${\mathbb {Z} }$ $r=4$ ${\mathbb {Z} }_{2}$ ${\mathbb {Z} }$

Computer Talk

Much of the above data can be recomputed by Mathematica using the package KnotTheory`. See A Sample KnotTheory` Session.

Modifying This Page

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